AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”.

Ce n’est pas libre, puisqu’on ne contrôle pas du tout la façon dont ce logiciel a été entraîné et qu’il est matériellement impossible (sauf à avoir les capacités de stockage et de calcul d’OpenAI) à reproduire soi-même.

Humans tend to make mistakes at the edges of our knowledge, our mistakes tend to clump around the same things, we make more of them when bored or tired, and so on. We have as a result developed controls and systems of checks and balances to help reduce the frequency and limit the harm of our mistakes.

The mistakes of AI models (particularly Large Language Models) happen seemingly randomly and aren’t limited to particular topics or areas of knowledge. Models may unpredictably appear to lack common sense.

Another possible reason for building a custom desktop computer in the future might be to use alternative components in place of those used by PC manufacturers to intentionally hobble their PC's. The fact that computers are becoming more locked down and less general-purpose should not be a secret.

I had 3 personal laptops during my entire lifetime. It is enough:

• one before college
• one during college
• one nearly after college

On the other hand, games are not really possible on them.

Rust is associated to software engineering. The post confirms rust concepts.

In all cases, it takes time for the worst or the best.

On the contrary I have some expectations.

I exist only at the moment.

I exist for a better future.

If I die tomorrow, I wouldn't mind at all.

I could have don more without dying.

If life is fleeting and fragile, why do we exhaust ourselves with ambition?

Good point. I didn't thought about it.

If I succeed at things, I don't feel happiness. If I fail at things, I don't feel sadness. Because I know that there is no difference between them, just like life and death.

I feel satisfaction when I succeed at something.

About becoming vegetarians and vegan.

There’s a lot more I can say, but I’ve found the most powerful lever was moral consistency.

TILs (Today I Learned) are useless, have terrible signal-to-noise ratio, create FOMO.

True, but they are not meant to be the best raw material ever made. They are made to add some randomness in your feeds (or way your consume news or content). They are personal. They don't share or are structure as a lesson. Most of the TILs I read are on Mastodon, toots shared on the fly because someone learned something. The tag Today I Learned is missing, but it remains a TIL nonetheless.

TILs are a way to discover things. Why on earth do you need some random facts to spark your interest in something?

Good point.

There are other advantages to the TILs. They can be read on the fly, in public transportations. They don't need focus or immersion as a fiction book needs.

I think in between: a majority of TILs is undesirable, a few can be useful. A balance is healthy. It is sometimes convenient to put your concentration aside, and distract yourself while reading something short.

Anyways, there’s a real friction between great UX and great security, and I can appreciate a lot of the challenges and compromise required to strike a balance.

The UX is currently hard.

There is often websites that have "bad" UX as listed in the post. The majority starts to have the "better". The "best" does not exist yet.

About dependency churn: how can we have less dependency?

Sur l'élection aux États-Unis, de ses conséquences et de la tendance politique actuelle.

Consitent and reliable UIs are good.

Definitely. I'm a big fan of Signal. Works at least as well as WhatsApp. The only excuse I've heard for not switching is "But my friends only use WhatsApp."

Don't be part of the problem. Create your account.

Hear me out: Investing in places like public recreation centers, libraries and parks will probably do more to cure the loneliness epidemic than any technological invention.

How a webpage can work for everyone

Design systems are extremely powerful when it comes to quickly creating prototypes.